I Beat Recurrent BRAIN CANCER with the Macrobiotic Diet Kevin Raymond.
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For some people, macrobiotic eating causes too high a reduction in body fat. Because the diet is low in animal fat, fruit, and dairy, it can provide too little: protein; iron; magnesium; calcium.The macrobiotic diet is low in fat, sugar, and processed foods of all kinds. It’s rich in fiber and healthy, nutritious foods like whole grains and vegetables.
So switching to a macrobiotic diet will boost your intake of these smart choices. However, experts say that.While the macrobiotic diet lacks robust clinical studies examining its weight-loss potential, its ban on processed food and emphasis on healthful and filling whole grains, vegetables and bean.
The macrobiotic diet promotes the consumption of whole and minimally processed foods. It’s largely based on grains, legumes, and vegetables. It excludes meat, dairy, eggs, nightshades, processed foods, coffee, and most fruits.
This dietary plan is inspired by Zen Buddhism.Pros of the Macrobiotic Diet. No junk food.
One of the best things, in my view, about the macrobiotic diet, is what’s not in it: junk food, soda, and other empty calories. Whole foods. Most of the foods are whole and minimally processed, which also lines up with my usual advice.
Lots of vegetables. Every meal—even breakfast—contains vegetables.This is because the macrobiotic diet is made up of primarily fruits, vegetables, and whole-grains—anti-inflammatory foods that nourish, rather than irritate the body. RELATED: Your guide to the anti-inflammatory diet that heals your gut, slows the signs of aging, and helps you lose weight.There are definitely pros and cons of the macrobiotic diet.
One of the biggest pros of the macrobiotic diet is the positive effects it has on preventing cancer. By cutting out some of the danger elements from a person’s lifestyle, they are significantly reducing their risk of cancer.The macrobiotic diet, along with other plant-based diets, has consistently been shown to help lower the risk of heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Additionally, the anti-inflammatory power of plant-based foods can help decrease the risk of chronic diseases.
The macrobiotic diet works by removing toxins and bringing you closer to nature. It promotes the consumption of organic, locally grown produce and limits the intake of processed, packaged, canned, foreign, and zero-nutrition foods. People who follow the macrobiotic lifestyle have a more balanced, peaceful, and harmonious approach to life.
It helps lower cholesterol, and any diet that drops the pounds is good for all these conditions. Because the diet limits sugary and fatty foods, it’s also good for people with diabetes. The.Macrobiotic Diet: The Pros Improvement in dietary intake.
Macrobiotic diets consist primarily of whole grains, fruits, and vegetables, which are an important part of a healthful diet. There is.And macrobiotic diets use whole grains, which can significantly improve insulin sensitivity compared to refined grains, which may be due in part to all the wonderful things fiber can do to help our good gut bacteria thrive—which could potentially lower inflammation, and decrease diabetes risk.Although no scientific evidence has proven a macrobiotic diet’s ability to cure cancer, some cancer patients use the plan to complement their healing process (1).
They believe that as they stay away from meals that have toxins and other dairy products, it can have a positive impact on their general wellbeing.Pros and Cons of a Macrobiotic Diet NutritionFacts.org The pros and cons remind me of a video I did on four ways of Improving on Which One Works Best? Duration: 25:25. Krocks In The.
Pros and cons of the macro diet “Counting macros can be effective for weight management and building muscle, as the method helps keep you close to your calorie and nutrient requirements,” says.
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44 comments
What a crock of shit. Too bad people are too gullable and stupid and fall for this shit hook, line, and sinker.
“Y-axis shenanigans”, love the way you called out that misleading graph! ��
There is no “Macrobiotic Diet”. What used to be viewed as the Macrobiotic Diet was a particular regimen that was suggested for people suffering from cancer, which is an extreme condition. Macrobiotics, “big life”, is a philosophy about flowing with the conditions of your environment and constitution. Michio Kushi, who promoted, taught, and practiced Macrobiotics in the West (after George Osawa had introduced it) used to say, “Don’t heat for your health, eat for your dreams”. Food is medicine. Nothing at all is denied in Macrobiotics, as everything can be balanced by something else.
It is easiest to eat from the centre of the see-saw than try to balance extremes from the outer edges (such as with beef and salads). You learn to master your intuition with foods through Macrobiotic knowledge, which is ultimately based on the brilliance of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
Environment and lifestyle is something we ignore in our Western way of eating. If you eat oats in a hot climate, you will overheat your body and be drawn to too much cold fluids or fruits. You could become irritable and suffer health problems. The Balinese do not eat oats. The Scottish people are famous for eating oats as it’s cold in Scotland. Balinese include mangoes in their diet, a cooling food. The Scottish people traditionally didn’t eat mangoes — they don’t grow in Scotland!
Nature provides the kind of ch’i / ki that we need in a particular environment, but we import foods from everywhere because we eat like children wanting our favourite flavours and textures.
Every type of food on this planet has a healing quality that affects a particular organ (millet for spleen, pears for gall bladder, etc…) Food either heals us or makes us sick. And it’s basic common sense, once you look at it.
Macrobiotic philosophy is Taoist in origin. It offers freedom from strict regimens that upset the mind. It’s so sad that it isn’t understood in the West.
I studied nutrition and never heard of this diet… my school must be really behind
I have been a macrobiotic / vegan for close to 50 years & have studied with Michio. YOU ARE ‘RIGHT ON’!!! BRAVO!…. Whole grains ( all of them), vegetables, beans, nuts (a few) & seeds & if you live in a warm climate & are active plenty of liquid & fruit. This regime has kept me happy, and free of sicknesses.
The Kushi Institute has been closed. While Kevin like many cancer survivors through macrobiotics has been a wonderful example of natural healing through macrobiotics, there are many macrobiotic counselors, teachers and students who beat their cancer, but later, the cancer reappeared. Many factors are important to note here. Today’s Environment, peoples’ nutritional needs, lifestyle are only a few. What worked years ago, doesn’t necessarily work now and what worked and works for some now, doesn’t mean that it will work for everyone.
Interesting the mineral ‘Zing’ is at 1:15. What is Zing used for? What foods contain Zing? I am constantly learning new things.
“…At the time of the world’s first plutonium atomic bombing, on August 9, 1945,
two hospitals were literally in the shadow of the blast, about one mile from
the epicenter in Nagasaki. American scientists declared the area totally
uninhabitable for 75 years. At University Hospital 3000 patients suffered
greatly from leukemia and disfiguring radiation burns. This hospital served its
patients a modern fare of sugar, white rice, and refined white flour products.
Another hospital was St. Francis Hospital, under the direction of Shinichiro Akizuki, M.D. Although this hospital was located even
closer to the blast’s epicenter than the first, none of the workers or patients
suffered from radiation sickness. Dr. Akizuki had
been feeding his patients and workers brown rice, miso
soup, vegetables and seaweed every day. The Roman Catholic Church—and the
residents of Nagasaki—called this a modern day miracle. Meanwhile, Dr. Akizuki and his co-workers disregarded the American warning
and continued going around the city of Nagasaki in straw sandals visiting the
sick in their homes…” http://macrobiotic.org/Miso.htm
Isn’t there a difference between the soy available in U.S. and that in Japan?
Macrobiotic = “dangerous”??? Hilarious! Far from dangerous compared to the SAD. awesome video as always ������������
The Daily Dozen app has been so much help. Effective daily checklist and reminders. I use it every day.
Thanks �� for sharing this wonderful teaching information video ������������������
Dirk Benedict from “Battlestar Galactica” got prostate cancer in his 30s and against the movie industries wishes took a break from acting and did the Macrobiotic Diet under Michio Kushi’s guidance while living in a cabin in the woods and reversed/ got rid of the cancer back in the 1970s or so. His book about it is called CONFESSIONS OF A KAMIKAZEE COWBOY. After that he did a lot of speaking to groups about Macrobiotics.
Those are also my kind of p-values!! Those numbers from the ma-pi study correlate with my patients’ metabolic values. Thank you Dr. Greger for this.
theres b12 in plants afterall https://www.livekindly.co/researchers-make-breakthrough-discovery-plant-based-b12/ just need healthy soil it seems, phew, where was ya on that 1 doc.. u been slackin ay.. lol
You often say “next’ at the end of your clips, but after a couple more are posted, new viewers have to rummage through your site or channel page to search for it. It would be helpful if one of your staff went back and linked them together.
ridding a macrobiotic diet of soy sauce, miso paste, etc is dumb and unnecessary if you are not consuming a ton of processed food. it is a diet based in japanese culture.
I followed a strict macrobiotic diet starting in 1999 for several years after being diagnosed with a stage 3 triple negative breast cancer tumor. Yes, I had a mastectomy and chemo, but since my survivial chances weren’t as good as I would have liked, I thought the added effort wouldn’t hurt. Gotta say that the strict diet is really tough but is actually not meant for long term. The medicinal diet I followed did not allow a lot of added salt and the amount of miso I used to make the soup resulted in something that came too close to warm water with kale floating in it for my taste, so I doubt I was consuming significantly more sodium than recommended. While on the strict macro diet I had frequent exams and bloodwork anyway from my oncologist because of the cancer. The only “problems” I experienced is that I was surprisingly healthy for someone who just had strong chemo (adriamycin/cytoxan). But I agree that a more varied macrobiotic diet would be more sustainable for the long term. It’s really just a mostly WFPB diet with some recommendations for portion size and good lifestyle habits with a few additional privisos that have a philosophical rather than scientific basis.
The cons of the macrobiotic diet weren’t called out in the video despite being shown briefly on a chart at 1:10. The three that stand out are Vitamin D, B12, and Calcium. The protein and some other Vitamin B’s are low but at least close. Everything else looks to be in-line or at least showing no statistically significant difference. My take home question is: Are these low values low enough to present actual deficiencies in any of these nutrients?
Thank you for reminding me all the time to stay on my whole food plant based diet.
The macrobiotic diet is called one of the most dangerous diets by the AMA even dangerous to life itself? -Was this before the (raw) carnivore diet came about? -Or were they just worried they’d lose a large percentage of their business if people started eating plant-based?
Great info… thanks for doing the research and posting! Gotta love a nutritional cliff-hanger!
Can someone PLEASE tell me if grass fed Ghee butter is REALLY healthy?
Mario Pianesi has been investigate by the italian police for be responsible of killing people with its diet. Also he’s known to have spilled money and hook people on his “sept”. I respect this kind of diet, but whole food plant based just kick the macrobiotic ass
Cuba, China, Ghana…all rather poor countries, or at least have large poorer populations. Social justice was a big issue for Georges Ohsawa, the founder of modern (Japan-based) Macrobiotics; I know since I read and reread his books since going on his diet back in 1970 (there weren’t that many vegetarian-type choices, and this was before Nathan Pritikin came on the scene). Ohsawa said that if most people couldn’t afford it, you shouldn’t eat it-that if a nation of 10 million people produced 20 million apples, you should only eat two (this ignores the fact that some people don’t like apples, and will eat zero). Yes, Ohsawa was a little bit strict, as also in his admonition not to drink more than a cup or so of water (I imagine that people made up for this somewhat by drinking more tea). It was all about Yin and Yang. Modern diets were too Yin, and so the remedy was a very Yang diet, high in sodium, and low in Yin things like sugars, alcohol, caffeine-and water. Of course the diet was so strict that people eventually went off it, and it certainly could be improved, but from the standpoint of economy it’s hard to beat. It saw lots of poor college students through the late Sixties and Seventies, living on mainly brown rice and beans.
Thank you Live Vegan Vibrantly. Great tips for healthy living. We had always been curious about the Macrobiotic Diet, as we heard that it is a go to diet for healing inflammation. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. Comment below if you have any tips for us or thoughts or input. We would love to hear from you!
Randomised double-blind placebo controlled trial…. we’re done here guys, the EVIDENCE is here
This sounds like a possible diabetic solution, and I am wondering if the lack of fruit is a good thing. All I know, is that whole grain oats and blueberries pushed my post prandial blood suger to 285. So in an effort to bring that lower, I have switched to tofu scrambles as a low glycemic breakfast. But I certainly do not want scurvy. I heard the part about complications from fruit avoidance.Trying to nail down this beast of diabetes is so challenging!
Macrobiotic offer GUIDELINES not rules. Do you remember when it was the trend to drink 8 glasses of water a day no matt wet your size, Lifestyle or climate? The reason people who eat lots of grains, beans and vegetables to drink a little less water is because there is water in the foods they eat. As opposed to some who eats more animal processed foods. Check out my website to learn more http://www.YourHealthandJoy.com
Are you aware of how Prebiotics can make you a healthier person?
I am a huge fan of yours Dr. Greger and I subscribe to your weekly videos and blog. I love the video on the recent study concerning Macrobiotics and Diabetes and the results using all the parameters you want in a study, show what Macrobiotic people have known for a long time. Macrobiotics can make people well for lots of conditions. While I consider you the authoritative source on lots of things concerning nutrition, I think your perspective on the macrobiotic diet is dated. What you say is accurate based on what use to be recommended for lots of people being introduced to Macrobiotics, but people, food choices and health conditions have changed dramatically in the last 30 years and much of the current Macrobiotics recommendations reflect those changes. The fluid recommendation you discuss is one of them. While macrobiotics is grounded in traditional diets from around the world, the choices open to healthy people have broadened, so depending on your conditions, the addition of fruits, wine, beer, a correct amount of salt and shoyu, the addition of fresh salads, nightshades, like tomatoes, and fish are all things that can be enjoyed if your health allows it…and even then, we aren’t speaking about not allowing food we enjoy to be eliminated forever…just until we have healed. As to the questions below on calcium, vitamin D, and B 12, the short answer is there are no shortcomings and lots of studies have looked at the nutritional profile of this diet to confirm this fact. Please reach out to Denny Waxman in Philadelphia at the Strengthening Health Institute (I have no ties other than I am a student) and have a discussion about what Macrobiotics offers today. I think you will be surprised. By the way, Macrobiotics isn’t helpful for just diabetes. People with heart disease, kidney problems, high blood pressure, arthritis, and many, many other health conditions have found relief in a Macrobiotic practice. Long before people discussed whole foods plant based diets…way before Forks over Knives, or Dr. Ornish proved you could reverse heart disease, George Ohsawa and Michio Kushi said that our health depended on what we ate and recommended whole grains, beans, leafy greens, root vegetables, miso soup, good quality salt, nuts and seeds, and some fruit. They stated that our health was directly related to our diets and this was over fifty years ago. Keep up the good work, I am a fan.
But how come Michio Kushi And his wife, Both died of cancer?? Macrobiotics didn,t cure them
Dr Greger, what do you think about Lierre Keith’s book The Vegetarian Myth? It would be so helpful to hear your thoughts. I am trying to figure out what kind of whole foods diet is really going to keep me healthy. Lately, I have been eating little to no meat or dairy due to ethical concerns, at the same time I don’t want to put my health at risk and I am not a nutritionist so when changing my diet I’d naturally like to know more. I will read Esselstyn, Barnard, Campbell and then I’ll read Robb Wolf and Lierre Keith and countless Youtubers between sharing their real-life experiences and I’m left with a big? If you can shed some light on your perspective of Keith’s book and thoughts on whether or not animal protein is beneficial it would be so appreciated. Thank you for your videos they have been instrumental towards eat more healthy and choosing foods that truly fuel me.
We need a video on flouride, The science is shocking and no one is talking about it.
Hey! Thanks for your video. Really helpful. How can I find out more about local grown food.? I’m aware this is only a brief question but I didn’t want to bore you. Thanks again
Hello Doc,
I am a new fan of yours this year, and have been devouring your videos. And I have been repeatedly surprised how similar what you teach is to what I learned studying Macrobiotics (Lucky me, I got to study with the Master, Michio Kush at the Kushi institute. Which after an over 50 year run, was shuttered a couple of years ago.)
I studied there over 20 years ago, and have to tell you that the “scary” Macro diet that I frequently read about-well I never saw those recommendations. And most of those things are related to “Zen Macrobiotic”, which you can assume has little to do with what Kushi was teaching over the past many decades.
That said, I recall Michio saying to drink reasonable amounts of water, not the gallon or so that has been the popular health recommendation for years. He also recommended, like you do, that much of your daily fluid intake be tea. His institute would have green tea and twig and barley tea earns around the campus to drink any time of day.
I have to say, when I was strict Macro for a few years, it was the healthiest time of my life!
I loved actor Dirk Benedict’s autobiography about using macrobiotics to cure prostate cancer. He’s very open about everything, including talking about poop. It’s called “Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy”.
I am a fan of this style and interpretation of cooking methods, thanks for touching upon it.
To answer the question of Michio and Aveline’s cancer. We are all human and therefore infallible. Both of these dedicated teachers had a huge DREAM to help get the word out that YOU can help yourself through natural foods and specifically through Macrobiotics, a balanced lifestyle. They allowed this dream to push them beyond health, with tireless travel teaching around the world They reached thousands and thousands of people who are now continuing to get the word out!
this is a very inspiring story & should be taken to heart
kevin raymond is to be admired for his strength in pursuing what’s right for him
macrobiotics is the real deal
and the proof is in the pudding: kevin is doing fine
I have had healing from macrobiotics after finding it to heal my father in law of a tumor in his intestine. My mother got healed of mitral valve prolapse in less than a week off sugar and eating macrobiotics. All kinds of healing me and my friends and family have had because of this for 4 decades. Believe it, it is true.
Get some grass fed raw milk, cream, cheese down you. Your Irish genes will thank you for it.
Thank you for exploring macrobiotics. It also includes sea vegetables / seaweed. It does include some seeds.
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